English Dictionary

mortmain

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɔːt.meɪn/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 文語

(law) The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church. / (literary) A strong and inalienable possession.

日本語の意味

（法律用語）法人や非人格的団体（例：教会）による、譲渡不可能で永続的な土地の所有権。 / （文学的）強固かつ譲渡不可能な所有または支配の状態。

The cathedral's land had long been held in mortmain, preventing it from ever being sold or taxed like private property.

その大聖堂の土地は長年にわたり教会による土地の永久的かつ譲渡不能な所有の下にあり、私有財産のように売却されたり課税されたりすることはありませんでした。

意味（1）

(law) The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.

[W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]

意味（2）

(literary) A strong and inalienable possession.

[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]

mortmains （ plural ）